Honkai Exposed: Starting with the Elysian Realm's Iconic Scenes

Kiana couldn't figure it out.

As a Valkyrie, wasn't it enough to know how to fight and pick up a baseball bat to pin a Honkai Beast to the ground and beat it senseless?

"Crack!"

Himeko Murata's face darkened as the chalk in her hand snapped in two. She stared at Kiana with a sinister look.

"Ki—A—Na!"

No matter what, she was sending Kiana to the Solitary Confinement Room today and rewarding her with a set of Three Years of Gaokao, Five Years of Simulation.

The Exposed Q&A System has been activated. The Chat Function is now available. The Q&A session will begin in ten minutes.

"Teacher Himeko, wait a second. I think something's wrong with my brain. Let me go to the hospital and get checked first."

Kiana rubbed her head, instinctively trying to use the opportunity to slip away. But just as she reached the door, Himeko Murata grabbed her and pulled her back.

"It wasn't just you. I heard it too," Himeko Murata said thoughtfully.

The sudden situation immediately put her on edge.

Something capable of directly transmitting information into their consciousness was unlikely to be a prank by some bored fifty-thousand-year-old child.

Yet they weren't in any danger, which left Himeko Murata somewhat puzzled.

"We can't rule out the possibility that hostile forces are behind this. I'll go explain the situation to Theresa. Kiana, Bronya, don't act rashly." Himeko Murata stood up, ready to leave.

"There's no need, Teacher Himeko. We've already seen the Principal, and Sister Mei is there too," Bronya said.

In the Chat Function area of the system, Theresa was chatting freely with the friends she had just met.

She showed none of Himeko Murata's tension.

Theresa: "Miss Elysia, so you were also inexplicably pulled in by the system?"

Elysia: "Calling me Miss Elysia is too formal. Just call me Elysia. We're all cute girls here, so don't be so distant."

Pardofelis: "Exactly! Let me tell you, this system is awful. It actually gave me an empty box as a welcome gift, and it even got me locked up for ages."

Raiden Mei: "It sounds like a system with a terrible personality."

Pardofelis: "Exactly, exactly! Sister Mei thinks so too, right? Opening a treasure chest only to find absolutely nothing inside... for me, that's simply infuriating!"

Eden: "Pardofelis, don't be angry. If you really like gemstones, I'll just give you another one."

Pardofelis: "Really? Sister Eden, I knew you were the best!"

Eden: "This blue gemstone was polished with a rose-cut technique. Its internal fractures bloom like exquisite flowers. I'll give it to you."

Pardofelis: "Wow! Thank you, Sister Eden!"

A crystal-clear gemstone dropped into Pardofelis's hand, and she rubbed her face against it like a cat.

Only then did her gloomy mood from being tricked by the system improve a little.

Kiana: "Did I hear that right? You're giving away gemstones? You're that generous?"

Theresa: "And it even has some rose-cut technique. It sounds really valuable—enough to buy lots and lots of Humo comics."

Kiana: "Hehe, it'd definitely be enough for a year's worth of fried chicken and cola."

Eden: "Does everyone like gemstones? I happen to have plenty more. If there's a chance in the future, I'll give each of you one as a gift."

Kiana: "?!!"

Theresa: "?!!"

The sudden aura of immense wealth left everyone who still didn't understand the situation stunned.

They had only just met, yet Eden was already offering gemstones and saying she had plenty of them.

Just how rich was she?!

Raiden Mei: "Giving away gemstones at the drop of a hat... Miss Eden, are you some kind of tycoon?"

Elysia: "Eden was the wealthiest artist of our era. I received quite a few gemstones from her too."

Kiana: "An overwhelming aura of wealth is coming right at me."

Bronya: "Wait, Miss Elysia. Did you just say people from your era?"

Bronya had spotted the key point.

No matter how hard she searched her memories, she had no recollection of anyone named Eden.

But if she was the kind of wealthy artist Elysia described, Bronya shouldn't have never heard her name.

Elysia: "That's right. I told Theresa earlier—we're from the Previous Era, the Flame-Chasers who fought against the Honkai in the Previous Era."

Himeko Murata: "Theresa, why didn't you tell us something this important?"

Theresa: "I-I just didn't fully believe it. The system itself is already strange, and I wasn't sure whether its information was accurate. I was still verifying it."

Elysia: "Oh my, what a hurtful answer. I thought Theresa had already become my friend. There shouldn't be suspicion between friends."

Theresa: "No, it's not that I doubted you. It's just that the system appeared so suddenly that I had trouble accepting it for a moment."

Only now, seeing that Himeko, Kiana, and the others were also in the Chat Group, did Theresa finally believe more than half of what the system was saying.

The Q&A began.

After entering the Previous Era Elysian Realm, who was the first Flame-Chaser Memory Body Mei encountered who offered her help?

[A: Elysia.]

[B: Pardofelis.]

[C: Eden.]

[D: Mobius.]

Elysia Is the Cutest in the World

The first question left everyone stunned for a moment, followed by a flood of question marks appearing in their minds.

Raiden Mei: "The Previous Era Elysian Realm? What kind of place is that? And why would I be the one going there?"

Elysia: "It should be something you haven't experienced yet. Or rather, something that would happen on the original future timeline."

Theresa: "That sounds rather mystical. Things from the future... it feels unbelievable."

Pardofelis: "What's so unbelievable about it? We people from the Previous Era can talk to people fifty thousand years later and chat happily together. No matter how strange something is, it can't be stranger than this, right?"

After thinking it over, everyone felt that she really had a point.

Even the Flame-Chasers who had died fifty thousand years ago could exist in Death Space and speak with them through the Chat Group.

If something that unbelievable had already happened, what could possibly be even more unbelievable?

Could someone develop for fifty thousand years and still be flat?

What a joke. How could that be possible?

Kiana: "I understand the logic, but why am I not going with Mei? What if Mei runs into danger and I'm not there to protect her?"

Bronya: "As long as idiot Kiana doesn't hold Sister Mei back, that will be enough. Elysia and the others' names are among the options, which means it has something to do with them. You know something, don't you?"

Elysia: "We really do know something. But it's our secret—wouldn't it be a little inappropriate to tell you directly?"

Kiana: "Do you want payment? Even though you already have someone as rich as Eden?"

Elysia: "Not payment. I just want you to do something, like say, 'Elysia is the cutest in the world.'"

Theresa: "?!!"

The moment she heard that, the headmistress became unhappy.

Damn it, they were people from the Previous Era, yet they still had no shame at all, competing with her for the title of cutest in the world.

Clearly, she, Theresa, was the cutest in the world!

Elysia: "Well? Who wants to say it? I promise I'll tell you everything I know about the Previous Era Elysian Realm."

Elysia: "You should know that place is very dangerous. If Mei truly went there, it would mean things had already reached an extremely urgent and critical point. Don't you think so, Pardo?"

Pardofelis: "If you count Sister Snake, then that place should be considered quite dangerous."

It was far more than merely dangerous.

Among the Thirteen Flame-Chasers, the three of them were relatively easy to communicate with.

If Sister Snake, Brother Jie, and their Memory Bodies were included, Pardofelis would have to worry whether she would be torn apart into "Pardo" and "Felis" after entering.

Himeko Murata: "It's that dangerous? But why would Mei go to such a dangerous place?"

Pardofelis: "I don't know about that, but I can guarantee that if an outsider enters the Previous Era Elysian Realm, they definitely won't come back out without getting beaten to a pulp by Brother Jie, Sister Snake, and the others."

Raiden Mei: "Let me ask first—Pardo, roughly how strong are this Brother Jie and Sister Snake you mentioned?"

Pardofelis: "Roughly at the level where each of them can kill a Herrscher."

Raiden Mei: "..."

Holy shit!!!

A herd of alpacas stampeded through Raiden Mei's heart.

A place where everyone could kill a Herrscher—what kind of demon den was that?!

She was just a weak Valkyrie who could do nothing except cook, and later she was supposed to go head-to-head with them?

Kiana: "Wait! If that's the case, isn't Mei in a very dangerous situation?"

Elysia: "I don't know. I only know about the Previous Era Elysian Realm itself. As for why Mei entered it, or what identity she entered under, I don't know any of that."

Himeko Murata: "Miss Elysia, why don't you tell us the information about the Previous Era Elysian Realm after all?"

For the sake of her student, Himeko tried to say that long, embarrassing sentence.

But...

But as a teacher with zero romantic experience, she truly couldn't do it!

Elysia: "All right then. Pardo, you explain it to everyone."

Pardofelis: "Sure thing, Sister Elysia. The Previous Era Elysian Realm is a place where the memories of the thirteen Flame-Chasers are buried. It contains the secrets of the Previous Era. After entering, you can interact amicably with our Memory Bodies and uncover the truth."

Pardofelis: "By the way, the Previous Era Elysian Realm itself should technically belong to Sister Eden."

Eden gave Golden Courtyard to Mobius, who later transformed it into the Previous Era Elysian Realm.

To say that the Elysian Realm belonged to Eden would not be wrong at all.

Kiana: "Memory Bodies, uncovering the truth... that's basically like a mystery-solving game, right? It doesn't sound very dangerous."

Raiden Mei: "I feel a chill running down my back."

Those were the secrets of the Previous Era. Just hearing about them sounded incredible.

Was something so forbidden really something a lowly cook like her could touch?

Himeko Murata: "Wait, Memory Bodies? So the original Miss Elysia and the rest of you..."

Elysia: "Of course we were already dead. The Finality of the Previous Era descended, the world met its end, and the mission of us Flame-Chasers had already come to a close."

Himeko Murata: "Um... sorry."

Eden: "Miss Himeko, there is no need for you to apologize for the destruction of the Previous Era. It was once splendid, once radiant. That is enough."

Three minutes remain for the Q&A. Please answer as soon as possible. Otherwise, the system will randomly select a lucky audience member.

The system's voice rang out, drawing everyone's attention back to the question.

Kiana: "Pardofelis, this is a question about the Previous Era Elysian Realm. You should know the correct answer to which Flame-Chaser Mei would meet first, right?"

Pardofelis: "Well... it could actually be anyone. The Elysian Realm isn't reality, after all. We don't know what the Memory Bodies are thinking or whether something unexpected might happen."

Elysia: "Pardofelis, that's where you're wrong. Isn't the answer to who she meets first obvious?"

Pardofelis: "Sister Elysia, you know?"

Elysia: "Of course. For a cute girl like Mei, the first person she meets would definitely be me."

Correct answer.

Congratulations to Elysia for obtaining the item: Life Coin.